The Wine-Glass

1859

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.26 × 5.4 cm (3 1/4 × 2 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 20.64 × 14.61 cm (8 1/8 × 5 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.1495

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 38, state ii/ii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Associated American Artists, New York); Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1990

  • Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 16, repro

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 27.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 38, ii/ii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Whistler

Markings

stamped center verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Watermarks

[crest with a fleur-de-lis]

Wikidata ID

Q77013012


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